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    INTEROCEPTION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the bodyplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("interoception" is a kind of...):

    sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interoception"):

    proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)

    somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)

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